52. The Four HorsemenRichard DawkinsSam HarrisChristopher HitchensDaniel Dennett 63a. The New Atheists Books

The End of Faith, Sam Harris, 2004

Letter to a Christian Nation, Sam Harris, 2006

The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins, 2006

Breaking the Spell, Daniel Dennett, 2006

God is Not Great, Christopher Hitchens, 2007

7The God Delusion Dawkins

Michael Ruse, atheist and Darwinist

The God Delusion makes me embarrassed to be an atheist

Thomas Nagel, atheist

since Dawkins aims to overturn the convention of respect toward religion that belongs to the etiquette of modern civilization, he resorts to persistently violating the convention, and being as offensive as possible

H. Allen Orr, evolutionary geneticist

the most disappointing feature of The God Delusion is Dawkinss failure to engage religious thought in any serious way.

83b. Books in Response to the New Atheists

Doug Wilson

Letter From a Christian Citizen

God Is, How Christianity Explains Everything

The Deluded Atheist

Phil Fernandes

The Atheist Delusion

Joel McDurmon

The Return of the Village Atheist

John Lennox

Gunning For God

94. Claims of the New Atheists

Faith is blind

Atheism is not a Religion

Science has disproven God

There is no evidence for God

Religion poisons everything

Evil and human suffering disprove God

Morality doesnt come from God

Belief in miracles is superstition

10Claim 1 Faith is Blind

Faith and reason are mutually exclusive

Science alone is rational and evidence-based

Religious faith is blind, irrational, not evidence-based

Scientists

Use reason

Science is evidence-based

Religious people

Have thrown away reason

Faith is blind

Faith is belief without evidence

11Answering Faith is Blind

Mischaracterize the nature of faith

Christian faith is evidence-based

Faith and reason are rational

Scientists place faith in the

Reliability of the five senses

Existence of a real physical world

Faith and reason are NOT mutually exclusive

NOT a conflict between science and religion

12A Conflict Between Worldviews

Conflict between two worldviews

Not between Science and Religion

Between Naturalism and Supernaturalism

God science are not alternative explanations for reality

Christianity has intellectual power

Science is a weapon in a larger cultural war

The question is Christianity true?

Not is it helpful?

Does science fit into this?

Does what you believe to be true match reality?

13The Arguments

Separate because Materialist View

Science is based on evidence

Faith where there is no evidence

Rational vs. irrational

Science deals with reality Faith everything else

Not separate because Christian View

God created the universe the laws of nature

Laws of nature make science possible

Science and Faith/Christianity are complementary

Science flourished because of Christianity

14Claim 2 Atheism is Not a Religion

Religion

Blindly believed

Not evidence-based

Belief in God

Atheism

Evidence-based

God does not exist

Nature is all there is

15Origin of Religion (per Dawkins)

Memes cultural units of information

Transmitted from one generation to another

Kind of like a virus

Pre-scientific age explanation

No longer helps Evolution

Presupposes that Evolution is true

Lacks explanatory power, e.g religion, morality, truth, etc.

Memes cannot be observed

Memes rejected by most scientists

16Answering Atheism Not Religion

Dictionary definition

Religion is a set of beliefs andpractices generally agreed upon by a number of persons or sects

U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 1961

Secular Humanism (a form of atheism) considered a (non-theistic) religion

Human Manifesto of 1933

Secular Humanism is a religion

17Everyone is Religious

Not all reality is physical

Love, hope, joy

Atheism tries to explain everything by means of physical causes

Atheism cannot explain everything

If atheism is true, why are there so few atheists?

Is my religion based on the evidence or refuted by the evidence?

18Claim 3 Science Disproved God

Evolution explains everything

Origin of the universe

Origin of first life

Complex life forms

Therefore no need for God

No scientific evidence

Richard Dawkins

God almost certainly does not exist

Darwinian natural selection explains the illusion of design in living things

Multiverse theory explains our universe

19Dawkinss Faulty Reasoning

If a universe that can support life is highly improbable, then the cause (God) must be more improbable Dawkins

God Is Not Great. How Religion Poisons Everything, Christopher Hitchens

God Is. How Christianity Explains Everything, Douglas Wilson

Letter to a Christian Nation, Sam Harris

Letter from a Christian Citizen, Douglas Wilson

The God Delusion, Dr. Richard Dawkins

The Deluded Atheist, Douglas Wilson

The Atheist Delusion, Phil Fernandes

The Return of the Village Atheist, Joel McDurmon

Gunning For God. Why The New Atheists Are Missing The Target, Dr. John Lennox

More Than a Carpenter, Josh Sean McDowell

The Grand Design, Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow

God and Stephen Hawking, Dr. John Lennox

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